ENVIRONMENT DEGRADATION: CHALLENGES AND LEGAL RESPONSES

Abstract

Environmental destruction and pollution has seriously threatened the human life, health and livelihood. Thus, there has been a thrust on the protection of environment the world over. If the quality of life is to be assured to the present generation and if the future generation is to be saved from the environmental catastrophe, the nature’s gift to us in the form of flora and fauna has to be preserved in the natural form. Environmental issues in India include various natural hazards, particularly cyclones and annual monsoon floods, population growth, increasing individual consumption, industrialization, infrastructural development, poor agricultural practices, and resource mal-distribution have led to substantial human transformation of India’s natural environment.